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Angela Gallop and Chris Gregg
How to Catch a Killer

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Anne Hart
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple : The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Anne Hart
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot : The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Mary Anna Evans and JC Bernthal
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

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David Suchet
Poirot and Me

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David Suchet
Travels with Agatha Christie

Regular price £30.00 GBP
Stephen King
On Writing

Regular price £22.00 GBP
Federico Varese
Tradecraft : Writers on John le Carré

Regular price £30.00 GBP
Lee Child
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories

Regular price £16.99 GBP
Sara Lodge
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Karen Pierce
Recipes for Murder : 66 Dishes That Celebrate the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

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Patricia Wiltshire
The Natural History of Crime

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Maggie Smith
Dear Writer

Regular price £18.99 GBP
Jennifer Morag Henderson
Josephine Tey : A Life

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Henry Sutton
Crafting Crime Fiction

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Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
Writing the Murder : Essays on Crafting Crime Fiction

Regular price £10.99 GBP
John Curran
The Murder Game

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Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin
King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King

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Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin
King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King

Regular price £88.00 GBP
Donna Leon
Backstage : Stories of a Writing Life

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Caroline Crampton
Agatha Christie’s England

Regular price £12.00 GBP
Stephen King
On Writing

Regular price £10.99 GBP
The Detection Club
Howdunit : A Masterclass in Crime Writing

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Kathryn Harkup
V is for Venom

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Kathryn Harkup
A is for Arsenic

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Gill Plain
Agatha Christie : A Very Short Introduction

Regular price £9.99 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Golden Age of Murder

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Barry Forshaw
Brit Noir

Regular price £8.99 GBP
Barry Forshaw
Crime Fiction : A Reader's Guide

Regular price £26.95 GBP
Barry Forshaw
Simenon : The Man, the Books, the Films

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Stephen Wade
The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers

Regular price £25.00 GBP
Stephen Wade
A Straightforward Guide To The Crime Writers Casebook

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Colin Duriez
Dorothy L Sayers: A Biography

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Francesca Wade
Square Haunting

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Laura Thompson
Agatha Christie : A Mysterious Life

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Lynda La Plante
Getting Away With Murder

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Golden Age of Murder

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
British Library Crime Classics

Regular price £25.00 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
British Library Crime Classics

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Patricia Highsmith
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Rachel McLean
Rachel McLean's Dorset Crime Trail
Dorset Crime

Regular price £29.99 GBP
Rachel McLean
Rachel McLean's Dorset Crime Trail
Dorset Crime

Regular price £9.99 GBP
Mystery Writers of America
How to Write a Mystery

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P. D. James
Talking about Detective Fiction

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Christopher Fowler
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London
Bryant May

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Jared Cade
Secrets from the Agatha Christie Archives

Regular price £25.00 GBP
Elly Griffiths
Norfolk : A photographic journey through the land of Ruth Galloway

Regular price £30.00 GBP
Lindsey Davis
Falco: The Official Companion

Regular price £22.00 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Life of Crime : Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators

Regular price £14.99 GBP
John Curran
The Hooded Gunman : An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club

Regular price £40.00 GBP

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